Which benchmark programs written in different programming languages are fastest? (more…)

The purpose of this post is to outline how I got involved with Rust open source projects with a specific emphasis on the "softer" aspects of open source contributions such as finding them and interacting with project maintainers. (more…)

With the release of rust 1.70, there was some surprise and frustation that unstable test features now require nightly, like all other unstable features in Rust. One of the features most affected is --format json which has been in limbo for 5 years. This d... (more…)

The container ecosystem is growing up. Proprietary implementations are gradually being replaced by open standards. One of the most important standards from the open container initiative is the oci-runtime spec, which allows alternative container runtimes ... (more…)

Years ago, Andrew Kennedy published a foundational paper about a type checker for units of measure, and later implemented it for F#. To this day, F# is the only mainstream programming language which provides first class support to make sure that you will ... (more…)